Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.